Alice and Bob in Wonderland- Perimeter Institute

Perimeter Institute's cartoon on the need for a quantum theory.

Don't forget about the Quantum to Cosmos event happening soon!

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Education

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• physics
• quantum
• atom
• mechanics
• electron
• poisson
• bracket
• perimeter
• institute

[MichaelKovarik]

That is not true. Even though the expectation value of an electron's probability is far away from the nucleus compared to the diameter. of the nucleus, the Coulomb constant is so large that the electrical force between the nucleous and an electron is massive so that there would be some MAJOR acceleration of the electrons resulting in a huge loss in energy causing the atom to collapse into itself almost instantaneously...according to classical physics that it.

[serban0cretu]

The electrons orbiting the nucleus are so far away from the nucleus that they do not significally interact with the protons in the nucleus, the electrical field generated by the protons is represented by a value that has some nonzero digits after many zeros to the right of the decimal point.

[Muhammedjailam]

i want more

[SpaceTime4D]

Alice finds the fatal flaw in the Rutherford model of the atom. And at that point, Newton got tossed out the window :D

[Trevortboss]

kind of corny, but thought provoking none the less :)